The Doors Achieved Something More Than Just Music. Morrisons Furious. The Song Break On Through (To The

“The Doors achieved something more than just music. Morrison’s furious. The song “Break on Through (To the Other Side)” blew my mind. It was fast, and the singer yelled. There was a lyric that grabbed me: “I found an island in your arms/Country in your eyes/Arms that chain/Eyes that lie/Break on through to the other side.” That’s heavy, and the way he’s screaming, for a little kid it’s kind of terrifying. Then when I got older, as a young late teenager, early 20-something guy, you hear The Doors in a totally different way. You hear the poetry, you hear the power of the lyric and then you find out he read Arthur Rimbaud, so you got to go get Arthur Rimbaud’s writing, and that’s monumental. That he was into Antonin Artaud, you read that stuff which is really far out and you become even more inspired. The story of the band is steeped in myth-tinged legend, but the facts of their brief history are as compelling as they are at times tragic. Jim Morrison was a true wild man of rock & roll.” — Henry Rollins

Red,White & Royal Blue,Casey Mcquinston (chapter 11,page 300)

I thought, this is the most incredible thing I have ever seen, and I had better keep it a safe distance away from me. I thought, if someone like that ever loved me, it would set me on fire.

And then I was a careless fool, and I fell in love with you anyway. When you rang me at truly shocking hours of the night, I loved you. When you kissed me in disgusting public toilets and pouted hotel bars and made me happy, I loved you.

And then, inexplicably, you had the absolute audacity to love me back. Can you believe it?

Sometimes, even now, I still can't.

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Jonny Lee Miller as Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson TRAINSPOTTING (1996) dir. Danny Boyle

Candy (2006)

Slow days,fast company, Eve Babitz

"On April 15, 1976, I read in the L.A. Times that Phil Ochs was cremated. (I hadn’t even known he was sick.) And it turns out he hung himself. In the news story it said he’d complained to a friend that he was depressed and “couldn’t write.” He’d been complaining for years that he could no longer write. I thought he wrote such beautiful melodies you could swim in them. And now he’s done such violence to himself, putting a rope around his neck, hanging himself, thirty-five years old. New York City style, black and white. No accident. Taking no chances."

Sofia Coppola at the Venice Film Festival in 2003 and 2023.